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      CONTINENTAL , NOTES . Arrest . — "An Ixl Wind , " &c . —We learn from Cfattgnani that at Brussels a man has teen arrested under burious circumstances . He told a cab-driver that he ¦ was a Spaniard , who had lost his papers , and "wished to be concealed for two or three days . They had some beer , and then met " Isabella , " who kindly consented to give the Spaniard a refuge . Afterwards the cab-driver was frightened , and went to the police , who arrested the Spaniard . After he departed Isabella was fortunate enough to find a leather belt containing 5000 fr . in gold .

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      Mjobmontte Error . —Some time since the King of Prussia obtained all the Mormon books from England and the States . The brethren heard of this mark of condescension and resolved on sending a deputation to Berlin . The deputation was received , with every mark of attention , by a detachment of soldiers , and the police ordered them to leave Berlin in twenty-four hours .

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      The Review in Paris . —The grand review on Monday was favoured by the weather , -vrhich , although cold and threatening , was finer than It has been for some days . ^ The regiments of infantry , cavalry , and artillery constituting the new Imperial Guard were drawn up in the avenues of the Tuileries garden and the Champs Eiyse " es . There were at least 10 , 000 or 12 , 000 of these picked troops under arms , and a finei body of soldiers was never seen . The variety , novelty , and richness of the uniforms , the show of strength and activity in the men , and their healthy , cheerful aspect , excited universal

      admiration . In the Place du Carrousel , awaiting the arrival of the Emperor from St . Cloud , that corps cVe'lite par excellence , that " cream of tlie cream , " the Cent Gardes , appeared for the first time on horseback . They come nearer to our Royal Horse Guards ( Blue ) than anything I have seen . The Emperot and Empress arrived in a travelling carriage at a quarter to one . They were received by Marshal Magnan , the Minister at " War , Marshal Vaillant , and most of the generals on the active list present in Paris . As the Imperial cortege drove into the court of the Tuileries the sound of martial music

      threw the Cent Gardes into confusion . Several of the horses reared and kicked , and one gigantic trooper measured his length upon the earth . At a minute before one ( the appointed time ) the Emperor , mounted on horseback , and followed by a brilliant staff and the Gent Gardes , sained forth from the front door of the Tuilerios into the gardens , and Tode slowly along the lines . His reception was the warmest I have ever seen . Not only the troops , but many of the public shouted " Vivo l'Emperour" with every appearance of genuine

      enthusiasm . One English officer in uniform rode with the staff . After passing along the lines into the Champs Elyseos , and inspecting the troops there , the Ernporor returned to the front of the Palace to see the filing past . In the balcony , decorated for the occasion with crimson velvet , the Empress took hor seat , attended by the ladies of the court . Marshal Prince Jerome in full uniform waa behind her chair , and close to him Lord Palmorston , to whom the Empress turned round to apeak very frequently during the review . —Daily News Correspondent .

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      Denmark . —The Morning Chronicle correspondent at Copenhagen mentions the arroat of Harro Harring , by birth a North-fristian , but for mnny years an Amerionn citizen . Ho was thoro for tho purpose of establishing a new stoam-packot company . Hivrro Marring arrived here accordingly on Wednesday , and wan immediately transported as a criminal to the police-office , although his papers wore in perfect order . Tho American Minister hero , Mr . Bcdinger , promptly interfered , sind tho Policemaster ( Broostrup ) allowed him to lotlgo at tho Hotel d'Anglotorro . Harring had thon an interview with tho Foreign Minister ( IJluhmo ) , whioh . lasted half an hour . The result was that ho was compelled to louvo Copenhagen instantly , and took his departure by the steamer Souleswig , to return to London , vid Kiel iiml Hamburg . You may think this inorodiblo and inexplicable , but it ia truo , and quite natural . Harro Harring took part in tlio Polish rising of 1880 . This ia sufficient .

      Therefore was he expelled from Norway some years back by the Russian Oscar , and therefore is he now driven from Danish ground by the Russian Bluhme . Russian reclamations have insisted on this step , and Bluhme has obeyed . So much for law and freedom under the present Ministry ! Mr . Bedinger will probably not let the matter end here .

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      AUSTRALIA . The Times published on Wednesday a long letter from their Correspondent at Sydney , from which we take the following important and interesting information . The yield of gold had been fully up to , occasionally above , the average , and a nugget of 98 lbs . had been recently obtained . The statement that Sir W . Denison was to succeed Sir C . Fitzroy gave much dissatisfaction , as he had gone against the popular opinion in contending for the continued importation of felons .

      The quiet current of local politics has been broken by a movement an the Council amounting at once to a resolution for stopping the supplies arid an impeachment of " the Ministry . " This measure has been provoked by the apathy , carelessness , and general incapacity of the members cf the Executive Government . The following resolutions have been framed : — 1 . That the Government of the colony , as at present administered , does not possess the confidence of this House . 2 . That this Council resolves to postpone the consideration of the estimates for the year 1855 , until it is assured that the public expenditure will be made under a Government formed upon the principle of Ministerial responsibility .

      3 . That an address be presented to his Excellency the Governor-General , transmitting ' the foregoing resolutions , and respectfully requesting that his Excellency will be pleased to take them into his favourable consideration . The censure is confined to the officials connected with the administrative departments of the Government . Mr . Cowper made a special exemption in favour of the Attorney-General and Solicitor-General The other officers he accused of want of zeal , want of knowledge , want of industry , and want of good manners , the last always telling for something in the management of all bodies of men , from parish vestries to imperial senates 5 but the chief special charges sprang from the management of the expenditure of the province . The

      Executive does appear to be f ailing into a system of extravagance that no revenue so liable to fluctuations can justify . The supplementary estimates for the present year amount to 185 , 000 ? . over and above the ordinary expenses . . It is more than the whole expenditure amounted to a few years ago , and it is not accounted for either by any sudden increase of the population or by the outlay on public works and roads . There is a strong feeling out of doors against the mismanagement that must exist somewhere , and it is expressed even ia quarters once favourably disposed to the official system generally . The Sydney Herald , for instance , describes the position of the Executive at present as one " of jarring incoherence , of helpless decrepitude , and of imbecility little short of mental aberration . "

      . Respecting the Mint , which may be considered established—A largo expense had been incurred and engagements made on tho former vote of the legislative body ; and there was a general feeling that the experiment must be made , though , with its present knowledge of how the production and exportation of gold have worked , the Council would certainly not petition for a Mint now . It vras alleged tliat the petition had only been granted under a condition that rendered tho privilege valueless . It was expected that the Australian sovereigns would be imperial coin , whereas they are to boar a distinctive stamp , though they will bo of tho exnet weight and value as tho gold coinage of England . Tho distinction is considered fatal ; the gold coined in the colony will be exported and received at home as bullion only ; it will

      not be a legal tender either in England or any of the British possessions ; it is doubtful whothor it would pass current in tho neighbouring Australian province of Victoria . Why go to tho expense , it was asked , of striking coin that beyond tho boundary of Now South Wales will bo but so much gold ? Tho motsu na it io dug up suffices for every purpose of commerce 5 its value ifl _ perfectly well known . In fact , gold commands a higher price horo than it does in London , and more than a Mint would impart to it—at least nominally . Other and minor objections Tvoro not wanting . Tho oxponao of tho establishment will bo out of nil proportion to tho population of tho colony ; it will bo at least 12 , 000 / . a year for loss than 2150 , 0 QO inhabitants , while it is said tho Mint of tho United States supplies tho coinago of 2 ( 5 , 000 , 000 of population for 80 , 000 / . por annum .

      Iho Council , on tho motion of Dr . Lung-, hns discussed tho quustlon of erecting tho Moroton-bay district , of Now South Wnloft into a separate province , to which it ifl proposed to give tho name of Oookulnnd . Tho motion was negatived on tho ground Hint

      Moreton Bay did not suffer much inconvenience , and could not , from its small size , afford a separate Government . Internecine warfare appears to be rife between the different administrations .- — Many acts may receive the sanction of the Crown , as containing nothing objectionable as far as the authority or interests of the mother-country are concerned , which may cause the most mischievous confusion in the relation of the provinces to each other . Thus the several tariffs of Customs' duties are becoming yearly more different ; the import duties of Victoria already differ so much from those of New South Wales , that on the frontier between these province s on the River Murray

      they have rival customhouses , between which the settlers are as methodically harassed and impeded in their trade as if the two colonies were foreign States . If a new province were created at Moreton Bay , its tariff would probably differ from both those above-mentioned , and more customhouses would be required on another inland frontier . Victoria has just passed an absurd postage act , differing from the system of all the other provinces , and that of England also , making any arrangement of a general system of postal communication with Europe for this continent almost impossible , and throwing the correspondence between the two provinces themselves into the greatest confusion . Any of the other Councils lave it in their power to add to the mischief by some

      blunder of the same kind . In granting the Mint to New South Wales , it appears to have been left doubtful -whether the gold coined in it will be current in either of the other three provinces , and it is by mo means impossible they may each at some future time petition for a Mint of their own , though one -well-appointed establishment could with ease issue more coin yearly than the whole continent will require for its annual supply for the next two centuries . There is a University at Sydney , with an able staff of professors and an endowment of 5000 Z . a-year , which the Government , with much good nature , pays for finishing the education of 15 young gentlemen ; as there is no public or preparatory school to feed the University , it is all but useless ; one educational establishment of this kind would more than meet the requirements of the whole of the provinces for several generations , yet another is being founded in Melbourne ,

      with a second endowment and another body of professors , and an equal certainty of failure in its chief object , from the same cause . The two provinces might have given some value to one establishment , had any power directed the respective Governments in a united action ; but two Universities for a population less than that of a small English county , where there is not a single public or high school to give the previous education required to '' graduate" with any advantage , "is a deplorable error . Even . pursuits common to both provinces are governed by different systems , though the nature , of the case required that one principle should be observed . The tendency to legislate without regard to the general effect of their policy , or in a spirit of provincial rivalry , is rapidly increasing , and the establishment of some authority , federal in effect , if not in name , will soon become absolutely necessary .

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      Victoria—The Melbourne Aryvs , of September 25 , thus notices a reaction in the labour market : — " There is at present for working men , who persist in remaining in Melbourne , a decided want of [ employment —itself a calamity—and an indication of embarrassment on the part of those who have been the usual employers of labour . " This want of employment tho Argus accounts for by the difficulties of acquiring land , over-exportation to the colony from the United Kingdom , and to some extent to the conduct of " tho working men themselves who , attracted by tho high rate of wages , have lingered in tho town , and refused to diffuse themselves over the country ; and now that tho scale ' of wages is declining refuse to work for lower rates . They prefer to remain idle , to expend tho produce of previousjindustry , and to defer still furthor tho commencement of those public and private works which only tho high pr ice of labour , in addition to a diminution of available capital , has delayed . "

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      SPAIN . EsPAKTKno has persisted in liis resignation , notwithstanding tho entreaties of tlie Queen and tlie demand of tho country . The now Ministry is not yet named . Tho Madrid correspondent of tho Morning Chronicle says : — " Some of tho journaln already givo lists of tho future Espartoro Cabinet « . t it will probably bo constituted , according to thorn ; but thoy ur « not only premature ,

      but without any good foundation . It appears that Scnor Olozaga profurw tho J ' arin embassy to tho Foroign-offico , whioh Don Antonio Gonzalos , now Spanish envoy in London , may bo oullud to fill . Ho hold tho samo poet before , during lCnpart . (! r <> ' » regency . Scnor Cnlatravu may uIho again hold ofHcc under Ifapnrtaro a « Finance MiniHtor . General Gurroa is spokou of a » MinbLor of War , and Don tlnan Uautiata Alonzo a » tho future MiiUHtor of Grace and Justice . " Moan while tlio bureau of tho Assembly hns been constituted . Eflpnrtero lias got the Presidency ; O'DonoU nnd Dulco aro Vico-Presidenta .

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      Results of Patkiotism . —M . Sobrier , one of the most eccentric of the celebrities of 1848 , and who , at the head of his famous Republican club of the Rue Rivoli , exercised for a time a considerable amount of pressure upon the provisional government , died two or three days since in a madhouse . He was , it may be remembered , sentenced to transportation by the High Court of Bourges for his part in the affair of May 15 , and was lately pardoned by the Emperor .

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      French Opiniox op Missionaries . —Some time since , the Bishop of Algiers , thinking the Church rather strong in the land , suggested Missionaries to Algeria . The heads of the military and civil offices were consulted , ¦ who -were decidedly against the motion . Recently the attack has been recommenced through the Pope and has met with the same results . It was stipulated when Algiers was conquered by the French that Islamism should be respected , and already several rebellions have occurred through giving the missionary his way . At present , when Turkey is as an ally , France is not prepared to frighten the Sultan .

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      1132 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 2, 1854, page 1132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2067/page/4/